During a conversation between a customer and a dialogue system like Alexa’s, the system must not only understand what the customer is saying currently but ...

Today I am happy to announce the public release of the Topical Chat Dataset, a text-based collection of more than 235,000 utterances (over 4,700,000 words) ...

The first step in training a neural network to solve a problem is usually the selection of an architecture: a specification of the number of computational ...

Amazon today announced the public release of a new data set that will help speech scientists address the difficult problem of separating speech signals in ...

In the past few weeks, Amazon announced versions of Alexa in three new languages: Hindi, U.S. Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.Like all new-language ...

This year at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural-Language Processing (EMNLP), we will cohost the Second Workshop on Fact Extraction and ...

In the past year, we’ve published several papers demonstrating that a natural-language-understanding model trained in one language, then re-trained in ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Echo, so in a talk I gave yesterday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, I looked at how far Alexa has ...

Konstantinos Benidis’ education and professional work experience spans four countries. He has a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering at ...

In 2017, when the journal IEEE Internet Computing was celebrating its 20th anniversary, its editorial board decided to identify the single paper from its ...